{"id":255599,"date":"2024-12-12T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=255599"},"modified":"2024-12-12T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T11:10:55","slug":"the-divide-grows-wider","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/the-divide-grows-wider\/","title":{"rendered":"The divide grows wider"},"content":{"rendered":"

The twelve richest people in the US now have a combined worth of over $2 trillion (inequality.org, 3 December<\/a>); that\u2019s a 2 followed by twelve zeroes. The newest member of this exclusive club is Jensen Huang, boss of the software company Nvidia, whose wealth is now $122bn, over twenty times what it was four years ago.<\/p>\n

This is at a time when there are over 36 million people in the US living in poverty by the official definition, including nearly ten million children. Over 650,000 are homeless, a figure that has increased for each of the last six years.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s capitalism for you: unbelievable wealth for a very few, varying degrees of poverty for many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-255599","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/255599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}